Christopher Bishop

Tech Valley High SchoolOctober 11, 2012

jack in…jump out

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Technology…is making geography …history

Estimates are 85% of the jobs you will be doing haven’t been invented yet…

You'll be using technologies that don't exist… And solving problems we don't yet know are problems8

U.S Department of Labor predicts that today’s learners will have 10-14 jobs…by age 38!

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• iPhone/iPad app developer

• Mobile marketing director

• microfinance infrastructure designer

• 3D content developer for movies, TV

• social network manager

• cloud - relocating productivity tools

• organic solar cell development

• digital image management

Top jobs in 2012 did not exist in 2002!

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• nanopharmacist• metaverse event planner • astrobiologist• lunar tour guide • holographic content designer

Future jobs we can't imagine

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• Creative problem solving

• Comfortable with ambiguity

• Passionate

• Self-directed

• Resilient & resourceful

• Knowledge across disciplines

• Global perspective

To be successful…

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Secret Sauce 1.Antenna

• what you want to do• what is happening in the world

2.Brand - defining and assessing your own brand 3.Network - finding people with similar interests

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1) Antenna

• Monitor the world

• Focus on your own skills,

needs

• Map the two against each other

• Trust your instincts

• Chase the maelstrom

• Follow your bliss

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2) Brand• Essence of who you are• What makes you unique • Everything you say & do• Establishes your expertise

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• It’s not what you know, it’s who you know• Lifelong job• Strangers with experience• Share your perspective• Use the tools!

3) Network

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What’s next?

• Go forth• Have fun• Change the world• Keep me posted

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BOOKS•Hamlet’s Blackberry – William Powers•The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman•Cognitive Surplus – Clay Shirky•Life After Television – George Gilder•The Next Convergence – Michael Spence

MAGS/WEB SITES•MIT Tech Review•Mashable•Huff Post•Wired•The Futurist

Resources

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christopherbishop123@gmail.com

http://twitter.com/chrisbishop

http://www.christopherbishop.net

Second Life: Christopher Express

THANKS!

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